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Quotes About Joke

Surprise makes a joke funny. I love it when someone tells me something I couldn't possibly have expected; you've been led along one path and - bang! - the joke comes out of nowhere.
~ Josie Long
There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke. But you and I, we've been through that, and this is not our fate, so let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late.
~ Bob Dylan
No reason to get excited,' the thief, he kindly spoke, There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke.
~ Bob Dylan
What was the future? The future was a solid wall, not promising, not threatening - all bunk. No guarantees of anything, not even the guarantee that life isn't one big joke.
~ Bob Dylan
No reason to get excited The thief, he kindly spoke There are many here among us Who feel that life is but a joke But you and I, we've been through that And this is not our fate So let us not talk falsely now The hour is getting late
~ Bob Dylan
What was the future? The future was a solid wall, not promising, not threatening—all bunk. No guarantees of anything, not even the guarantee that life isn't one big joke. • • •
~ Bob Dylan
When you asked me how I was doing, was that some kind of joke
~ Bob Dylan (lyrics)
On CBS, Stephen Colbert joked darkly, "It's just like D-Day. Remember D-Day, two sides, Allies and the Nazis? There was a lot of violence on both sides. Ruined a beautiful beach. And it could have been a golf course.
~ Bob Woodward
Inside the Republican cloakroom, one joke McConnell enjoyed telling was about Trump's former secretary of state Rex Tillerson, a cabinet member he had liked. In 2017, the State Department had strongly denied Tillerson called Trump a "moron.
~ Bob Woodward
I should say the summit of contemporary university knowledge in two fields, mathematics and the humanities. That's no joke!
~ Boris Pasternak
if you think the worst you'll get the worst, but if you think the best... and then everything will blow up in your face anyway. Don't you get the punchline yet? Its the great cosmic practical joke: Knock knock, who's there? Big kick in the Ass.
~ Brad Meltzer
married to King Henry" was an inside joke
~ Brad Thor
Oh, something is there, waiting for me. Perhaps someday the revelation will burst in upon me and I will see the other side of this monumental grotesque joke. And then I'll laugh. And then I'll know what life is.
~ Sylvia Plath
My Aunt Libby's husband had made a joke once, about a nun that a nunnery sent to Teresa for a checkup. This nun kept hearing harp notes in her ears and a voice saying over and over, Alleluia! Only she wasn't sure, on being closely questioned, whether the voice was saying Alleluia or Arizona. The nun had been born in Arizona. I think she ended up in some asylum.
~ Sylvia Plath
special preference to "an automobile manufacturer incorporated in Delaware on October 13, 1916." That would be General Motors, although the name of the firm does not appear.
~ T.R. Reid
Radio is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
~ T.S. Eliot
And here comes The Aeneid, right on schedule," Martine said. Paul looked at her, but if it was a joke, she wasn't smiling.
~ Tad Williams
Hey. You know what the shark said to the clown?" "No." "You taste funny.
~ Ted Bell
Não sobrava nada além de uma tola liberdade condicional, a piada de se viver como uma palavra entre parênteses, divorciada da frase principal e da qual, no entanto, é quase sempre sustentação e explicação
~ Julio Cortazar
In 2005, the Iraq war was entering its third year and no one believed that we were going to find WMDs any more. The prewar claims of their certain existence were becoming an embarrassing joke, a big present we'd been offered that was getting ever later in showing up.
~ Jesse Armstrong
The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.
~ Friedrich Schiller
Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.
~ Alexander Pope
There used to be an old bad joke. I hope it's not so much a good joke anymore. 'Everybody's from Scranton; no one's in Scranton.'
~ Joe Biden
If I can't face my accusers, that's a joke. We did that in medieval times.
~ Lance Armstrong